Think that I'm just being picky. Normally use CS5 but have been, as I said, using Elements as a simplified PP exercise for my grandchildren among others.

Running it on Windows 7 and I have only installed PSE11 a couple of days ago and only on a laptop running at 1366 x768.

Panels are staying ing place, it's only the document that opens as a tabbed image. No bother to change it, I just couldn't understand why I did not get the same workspace whenever I opened the program again.